Global Servants of the Spanish King
Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-40321-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-40321-4 (ISBN)
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This book explores mobility and cosmopolitanism across the early modern Spanish empire, and how they impacted its governance. It will attract students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire, global history, the Spanish empire, Latin America, and the Spanish Pacific world.
From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent political unit out of multiple heterogeneous territories, creating the earliest global empire. Global Servants of the Spanish King follows officials as they itinerated between the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa, revealing how their myriad experiences of service to the king across a variety of locales impacted the governance of the empire, and was an essential mechanism of imperial stability and integration. Departing from traditional studies which focus on high-ranking officials and are bounded by the nation-state, Adolfo Polo y La Borda centers on officials with local political and administrative duties such as governors and magistrates, who interacted daily with the crown's subjects across the whole empire, and in the process uncovers a version of cosmopolitanism concealed in conventional narratives.
From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent political unit out of multiple heterogeneous territories, creating the earliest global empire. Global Servants of the Spanish King follows officials as they itinerated between the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa, revealing how their myriad experiences of service to the king across a variety of locales impacted the governance of the empire, and was an essential mechanism of imperial stability and integration. Departing from traditional studies which focus on high-ranking officials and are bounded by the nation-state, Adolfo Polo y La Borda centers on officials with local political and administrative duties such as governors and magistrates, who interacted daily with the crown's subjects across the whole empire, and in the process uncovers a version of cosmopolitanism concealed in conventional narratives.
Adolfo Polo y La Borda is a Teaching Associate of Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on the political culture of the global Spanish empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is his first book.
Introduction: the Spanish imperial officials and their World; 1. An empire on the move; 2. Imperial networks of patronage; 3. An empire of experts; 4. Controlling dissent and imposing authority; 5. Radical mobility; 6. Imperial Cosmopolitanism; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Latin American Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-40321-4 / 1009403214 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-40321-4 / 9781009403214 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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